Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Том 99Pub. for J. Hinton., 1796 |
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... best part of beauty is what a picture cannot express ; and I could . never read some passages in Thomson's description of his Lavinia , without thinking how much truth there was in this obfervation ; for the exquifite beauties of her ...
... best part of beauty is what a picture cannot express ; and I could . never read some passages in Thomson's description of his Lavinia , without thinking how much truth there was in this obfervation ; for the exquifite beauties of her ...
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... best pre- pare for the felicity of future scenes . To this unfading excellence devote The morn of reason and the prime of thought . Though Youth and Beauty different tasks perfuade , That youth must languish , and that beauty ...
... best pre- pare for the felicity of future scenes . To this unfading excellence devote The morn of reason and the prime of thought . Though Youth and Beauty different tasks perfuade , That youth must languish , and that beauty ...
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... best , and all kind of hours ; drinking any fort of poison that is fold under the name of wine . Mercy on us ! why it is the life of a beast ; but the fact is , there is no reasoning with Dick- he is mad , stark mad , by heavens , and I ...
... best , and all kind of hours ; drinking any fort of poison that is fold under the name of wine . Mercy on us ! why it is the life of a beast ; but the fact is , there is no reasoning with Dick- he is mad , stark mad , by heavens , and I ...
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... best and the only infallible antidote againft those varieties of weather to which we are exposed in this country . Perhaps I may be partial to it , but befide think- ing that a man who has such a taste may defy all weathers , I question ...
... best and the only infallible antidote againft those varieties of weather to which we are exposed in this country . Perhaps I may be partial to it , but befide think- ing that a man who has such a taste may defy all weathers , I question ...
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... in quantity or quality . It overspreads the Weald in every di- rection , where it flourishes with a great degree of luxuriance . The foil , which * is best adapted for raising this plant , timber went 18 THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.
... in quantity or quality . It overspreads the Weald in every di- rection , where it flourishes with a great degree of luxuriance . The foil , which * is best adapted for raising this plant , timber went 18 THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.
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